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Puck is a weekly webcomic that, in the words of one fan, is "mostly irreverent humor concerning a pretty girl with freckles and a hot she-devil who wears fan-service costumes." Surreal fantasy slice-of-life crazy-type stuff about the world's funniest redhead! Updates Tuesday.

I recently put a bunch of work into updating the PDF collection of voting incentive images, and the results are finally assembled! This new PDF volume contains all the voting incentives from 2011 all the way to 2017 (including some that never even ran) in a print-ready high resolution! That’s almost 200 pages of stuff! So if you’d like to buy a copy, please do!

As for this comic…

Okay, so this comic’s original joke was slightly better, but then it sadly got ruined thanks to the magic of region-specific colloquialisms. Daphne’s line in panel four was initially “If it’s charity he wants, he can make out with the Sally Ann down the street.” ‘Sally Ann’, see, is slang for the Salvation Army – but ONLY in Britain and Canada. I didn’t know that the term wasn’t a stateside thing, but then I discovered it thanks to my friend Google, and the joke was ruined. Okay, it wasn’t exactly ruined, but it’s not as elegant as it was. See, Sally Ann is a girl’s name! And it’s also a charity! See? It was perfect! Now it’s not.

I blame America. It’s all their fault for not getting my weird Canadian slang which (now that I think about it) makes absolutely no sense.

I thought I heard that song before on one of my bf’s oldies collections. I called him and he said, no, that was “Hey Carrie Anne” by the Hollies. Phooey, robbed of a scoop. Can’t stand Olivia N-J, anyway.

‘Nother Aussie here, and I confirm this. I had no idea that Canadians called the Salvos Sally Ann.
And yes, ‘the Salvos’ does sound pretty good, and ties in well with the army thing.
“Sir! We have another group of homeless coming in from the west”
“Fire another salvo of soup and blankets”
“Yes Sir!”

It is quintessentially Aussie. All your colloquialisms are a little twee, but also very kind of ‘in your face’ and often sound like a noise that Batman makes when he punches people. Like ‘Macca’s’ for McDonald’s.

Apparently a small number of Americans picked it up (mainly during WWII when a bunch of American soldiers spent a lot of time with Brits), but it never gained a big foothold. There are just a few Sally Ann holdouts like your dad and his buddies.

Oddly, where I live there is a cosmetics supply store called Sally Ann. First time I saw it it confused me, as I had walked past the Sally Ann five minutes before and couldn’t figure out why the Salvation Army would open another one so close to the first.

I hate playing against people who are good at Luigi. I don’t know why, but I find his moves annoying. Maybe it’s just the fact that it’s Luigi. He’s such a loser. It makes my losses sting more. It’s like losing to Dan in SF.

It’s mainly because Luigi’s move set is very risk v. reward as opposed to a lot of other fighters. You can go for a crit-hit-up-b like I mentioned earlier, but if you miss, or don’t connect the right frame, you’re left vulnerable for a long time. Same with trying to get a mis-fire, or returning to ground with a tornado down-b. Luigi isn’t a bad character, but he is largely motivated by taking risk in his attacks/

(A) I don’t have TV.
(B) HBO isn’t really available in Canada. Not readily, anyway.
(C) ‘Basic Instinct’ is not the kind of movie I’d really ever feel the need to watch decades after its release. It’s not exactly a classic, or a cornerstone point in cinema – beyond the interrogation scene, which I have seen, and seen parodied millions of times. There are some movies, honestly, that if you don’t see them upon their initial release, you’re probably never going to see. That movie is one of them.

Heh, I was seven when “Basic Instinct” came out. But I was watching TV late one night, about four years ago, and my bf was reading, and so I asked him, mainly to bother him and make him pay attention to me,what “Basic Instinct” was all about. He said, “Sex and dominance. If you get turned on by it, let me know.” I wasn’t so I didn’t. 😛

When I was a freshman at college, there was a long-going game of Monopoly going on in the rec room of my dorm. Those people cheated so bad, going to garage sales and buying old Monopoly games and taking the fake cash out. It only lasted first semester, though. They all flunked out.

I hope you got paid for that energy drink ad, just went out and bought a bunch of Red Bull today. I would’ve done it anyways, but if it gets you those extra ad dollars I’m willing to blame you for my shopping habits.

Anything that annoys Daffy is jake with me, but I gotta say, I personally wouldn’t spend enough time with Taylor to even let him sit snuggled close to me. let alone get to first base. I am picky, especially with men my own age.

It’s a Smash Bros. thing. ‘To main’ is to specialize in (or at least attain a decent level of proficiency with) a certain fighter. And Luigi is (as Jericho Wilhelm commented somewhere on this page) a finicky and difficult character to master. If you’re really, really good at Luigi and know what you’re doing, you can wreck shop. Note: I am NOT really good at Luigi.

Eh, Smash Bros is pretty old when you think about it. I remember playing the first one on the Nintendo 64. Luigi was in that one too. I found it fun, as its more of a item heavy platformer slugfest as opposed to a 1-on-1 Streetfighter clone.

Detractors say that it’s a casual gamer button-masher that no serious fighting game player would ever pick up. Others say that it’s the most balanced fighting game in the world, where less skilled casual players AND serious players can find the game entertaining. I tend toward the second opinion, especially when compared to most other fighting games that have fallen deep down the hole of catering exclusively to the e-sports hardcore gamer crowd. Smash is still fun to play. It’s always fun, even when playing against someone who’s way more skilled than you.

I’d say I feel bad for Tyler, except I don’t – he seems to either be happy just hanging with Daphne, or he simply does not care enough about the fact she probably considers him more than an accomplice for possible future crimes (I may or may not be referring to a previous arc with that comment. I totally am, however).

Therein lies the whole thing with this dynamic. Tyler would be an insufferable ‘Nice Guy Syndrome’ character if he were actually pining after Daphne. But he’s not. Other characters have verbalized ‘Tyler likes Daphne,’ but Tyler hasn’t. They’re friends; they like each other. They both seem kind of not ready for anything more than that. At least so far.

Hmmmmm . . . and yet methinks Daphne will go fluorescent (anybody can go incandescent, so clearly not what she’d do) if and when another girl goes for Tyler, or he gets a girlfriend. Making Daph only a girl friend. Huh. What a difference that one small space between words makes!

Tyler: “Hey Daphe? Tell your sorta-Mom that I’m actually gayer than Elton John, and that I’m shamelessly using you as both my public beard, and because you have better consoles than I do at home.”
Daphne: “…………damn. NOW I kinda want him.”
Puck: “If it turns out this was his wicked plan all along… well, good for him, I say. Seriously, you can’t fault his patience or commitment to the scheme.”
Colin: “…Either way, the little dude has more game than I do.”

We Canadians dutifully celebrate the Fourth of July every year. We gather together in auditoriums public squares to watch amusing pantomimes that relive that time we stormed down to the American Presidential Palace and set it on fire. Good times.

In WWII, the poor Canuck soldiers should have set fire to Dieppe instead of trying to invade it. “Eh, all we want to do is create a diversion so that SOE can steal that Enigma machine in the building at the top of the cliff. We’re sorry that you got upset,” 😛

Well, remember that Canadians elected Rob Ford – crack-smoking buffoon – as mayor of Toronto. AND Canadians are well under way to vote his brother Doug Ford, documented drug dealer and noted thug, as premier of Ontario. So we can’t get on our high horses. The horses ain’t that high.

For the sake of comedians everywhere… well… You know… except Canada, ELECT DOUG FORD! His brother is a goldmine, but after a while, because he has an illness, you feel bad for picking on him. Doug is just an a$$hole. No drugs needed!

Glad to see they have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen BTW. I keep my by the door. In case of fire (1) go to fire extinguisher (2) proceed out the door to safety!

The worn corner on the sofa in panel 3 is a nice detail. The relationship has been going on a loooong time and they’ve settled in comfortably with what works for them. Until it doesn’t work anymore. Hard to predict how long that sofa will last. Is there room from someone new?

Reminds me of when my friends and I were working in our church’s food ministry, cooking. The smoke alarm went off and one of the guys sang out, “Dinner’s ready!” The rest of us broke up, except his wife, who just growled, “That’s all right, y’all don’t have to live with him.” 🙂

Oh my gods! I’ve figured it out! Tyler caters to Dap’s every need, provides companionship, clearly wants a physical relationship, doesn’t ever get that, both have affection for the other, yet its mainly Tyler who caters to her needs and rarely the other way around… they got married during the time that Puck has a blank in her memory, didn’t they?

I wish I had the money to move there. Certain groups are protecting child marriage, as in kids marrying *adults*, even, on “religious freedom” grounds. If your religion says you can marry a 12 year old, I want nothing to do with it.

Then I don’t think that you perceive of any of the historical necessity of such a thing. Not that I would condone or condemn it. If today’s society speed cold and went back to the middle ages then their shouldn’t be much of a problem.

But it just seems to be implied that there seems to be a bit of mistrust against Jewish, Islamic and possibly a few other faiths on your part.

You know what, Pat, this is supposed to be a place for me to escape depressing realities. Just look up states and politicians supporting child marriage. I had this long response, but I’ve had my fill of politics, here. It’s mainly “Christian” Evangelicals. People like Michael and Debi Pearl and others.

Hear hear. You can find weirdo super-patriarchal, repressive corners of pretty much every world religion. I’d blame religion in general, but there’s enough weirdo super-patriarchal, repressive corners of the secular world too.

I had a few. (Not at the same time, mind you. But there was always one girl that I was pining over at any one given point in time.) For me, though, I was a social dork and didn’t know how to properly talk to girls, so I mostly pined from a distance. Some other guys I knew, though (like my brother, who was always much better socially), were locked into the weird friendship dynamic with a girl like we see here with Tyler and Daphne. It’s not exactly the ‘friend zone’, but more of an awkward ‘mutual friend zone’ where both feel a sort of ownership over each other, but they’re not exactly dating. ‘Great memories, terrible feelings’ is probably the best way to describe most of high school.

I had a Canadian friend once and one of his uncles was talked about in a book on Canadian coal miners. He expressed the opinion that the Salvation Army was the only religion that actually helped people and so that was his. They don’t have the BEST reputation here right now, though.